Purpose:
Project: PEGASUS (Potential Energy
Groups / Alternate Sources / United States) is a Department of Energy
research facility originally designed to explore all possible sources
of energy. Among other things, it became one of the world's premiere
sites for studying superhuman manipulation of various energy types, and
briefly acted as a containment facility for super-powered criminals.

Affiliations:
Project: PEGASUS is a subsidiary
of the U.S. government, specifically the Department of Energy. It has
engaged in scientific and technical exchanges with many organizations
including SHIELD, STARCORE,
and Stark International. PEGASUS and the Vault cooperated and
overlapped in a number of areas, including developing and deploying the
Guardsmen.

Base of Operations:
Project: PEGASUS' entrance
is located atop the Adirondacks' Mt. Athena in upstate New York, and
appears to be a fairly high-tech observatory: the visible buildings
include two three-story buildings, a cluster of geodesic domes, an
observatory, a radio telescope installation, a hangar, a landing strip,
and an air control tower. The facility itself is embedded within the
mountain, running 24 stories deep. While a steep bluff descends from
one side of the facility, below which lies a lake, the other sides are
less severe and it is possible to drive to PEGASUS' surface buildings
via a moderately steep and winding road, though still sufficiently wide
enough to allow a semi to travel it. Project: PEGASUS itself is top
secret - the general public is aware of neither PEGASUS' true nature,
nor its underground components, though the existence of a facility
named Project: PEGASUS is well documented. The town of Pottersville,
New York, was located several miles away, but has since been destroyed
by Willie Evans (it is unclear if the town has been rebuilt). The
current Project:PEGASUS site was occupied by an orphanage from at least
the 1930s until the mid-1940s. This was replaced by a government
nuclear facilty and research lab from the mid-1940s forward, which
eventually became Project:PEGASUS.

Organization:
PEGASUS is headed by one main
Administrative Director; this was Dr. Myron Wilburn for most of
PEGASUS' life, though he was replaced by Director Gruenwald, who was in
turn removed by HAMMER. Three other Directors (or Heads) reported
directly to the Administrative Director: a Head for Research (Dr. Anson
Harkov), a Head for Development, Patents, and Marketing (Dr. Margaret
Mayfair), and a Head for Security (originally Quasar, then Guardsman,
Blue Shield, Firebolt, Blue Shield again, and Darkhawk). All three of
these Heads may have a number of subsidiary directors who in turn
report to them (for example, Evelyn Necker was a Robotics Head, and
likely reported to the Research Head). As in any organization, in the
absence of one of the above someone else will be assigned to assume
their responsibilities.
Physical structure of PEGASUS can easily be read from the main
image to the upper right. Several elements are notably missing on that
main map but most are included on the yellow map to the lower right.
These include: the "H Level" Fast breeder reactor which is PEGASUS'
primary power source, though it has many others; three living modules,
named Sunday Times, Lower Slobbovia, and Miami Beach; an emergency bolt
hole evacuation/egress system, and a separate series of rocket sled
escape tubes; a magma tap and several abandoned bore holes descending
from a module located beneath the thermal research facility (one of
these abandoned bore holes connects to a Lava Men village); "the Pit,"
a nuclear waste disposal station; a "Stand-Off Emergency Monitor
Station," located beneath and away from the facility. For still a third
map of these facilities, see the Deluxe Official Handbook of the Marvel
Universe, issue 10, page 28.
Super-humans were confined for study for a time in the Compound (a
D-level dome), but most of the super-human confinees have been
transferred to the Vault. Extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional aliens
are still occasionally confined in the Compound.

First Appearance:
Marvel Two-in-One#42 (August, 1978)

History:

(Incredible Hercules I#137 (fb)) -
Under the name Miranda Minerva, the Greek goddess Athena
ran an orphanage at the top of Mount Athena from before the Great
Depression up through World War II. She tested students there, seeking
one with a 'hypermind'. Pythagoras Dupree was an orphan there, but fled
during World War II.

(Giant-Size Avengers I#1 (fb) /
Official Handbook of
the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#9) - After World War II, a nuclear
facility was placed on Mt. Athena (presumably Athena's orphanage was
abandoned or sold first). The Whizzer and Miss America worked as
super-powered guards there. A 1949 nuclear accident was prevented only
by their plunging into a nuclear inferno and gaining control of it;
when Miss America subsequently gave birth to their son (Robert Frank
Jr., Nuklo) there at the Mt. Athena facility, the child began emitting
deadly radiation, and was soon placed in a "chrono-module,"
subsequently buried under another government facility near New York
City. The Whizzer and Miss America quit soon after.

(Marvel Team-Up I#18 (fb) /
Official Marvel Index to
Marvel Team-Up#1) - The apparently dead Blastaar was brought to an
upstate research lab for study; this was an early predecessor to the
PEGASUS facility. The body was later stolen by Professor Paxton
Pentecost.

(Marvel Two-in-One#42 (fb)) -
Project: PEGASUS was a
special program organized by the Department of Energy, as a site for
the study of all forms of energy in hopes of finding viable
substitutes. It was built to be utterly impregnable, and was top secret.

(Power Man and Iron Fist#112-113
(fb) - BTS / Iron
Manual Mark 3) - Following his partnership with Captain America, the
Falcon headed up a secret SHIELD group that oversaw security during the
construction of the Project: PEGASUS facility.

(Marvel Two-in-One#53) - PEGASUS
was designed as a
sterile environment; once it was completed visitors underwent
decontamination upon entering the facility.

(Marvel Two-in-One#58 - BTS) - The
Roxxon Energy Corporation, through their subsidiary the Nth
Command, began acting on a plan to activate and employ an Nth
Projector within Project: PEGASUS for the purpose of banishing the
facility to another dimension and removing its threat to the
corporation's energy profits. They hired Dr. Thomas Lightner to
infiltrate PEGASUS, establish a good name there, and then help them
smuggle the Nth Projector in, though Lightner
had his own plans, unbeknownst to Roxxon.

(Marvel Two-in-One#42 (fb) - BTS)
- Wundarr was
brought to Project: PEGASUS for testing. They used him in tests hoping
to unlock the secrets of the Cosmic Cube, as well as to cure his
stunted mental growth.

(Marvel Two-in-One#57 (fb) - BTS)
- Following a fight
which broke many of his bones, Electro was brought to PEGASUS for
testing; Klaw was also brought there.

(Marvel Two-in-One#42) - Hearing
Wundarr was led at
Project: PEGASUS, the Thing broke into the "utterly impregnable"
facility. Captain America stopped Grimm, and the pair observed
Wundarr's test with the Cosmic Cube, and its Victorius-cause failure.
Victorius stole the Cube and teleported away, and the Thing and Captain
America followed in a PEGASUS jet equipped with the latest Stark
International energy tracers.

(Marvel Two-in-One#43) - The Thing
and Captain
America retrieved the Cosmic Cube (which they believed to now be
powerless), and returned it to Project: PEGASUS.

(Marvel Two-in-One#53 (fb)) -
Following his exposure
to the Cube, all forms of energy around Wundarr began shutting down,
forcing the facility to confine him in a very large and mostly empty
room.

(Marvel Two-in-One#53) - The Thing
joined Project:
PEGASUS as security. Thomas Lightner covertly created a security breach
which allowed Roxxon's Deathlok robot to enter the facility.

(Marvel Two-in-One#54) - The Thing
and Quasar
defeated Deathlok, destroying the robot in the process. Bill Foster
joined PEGASUS as a staff scientist, bringing the corpse of
Atom-Smasher for study. Lightner released Nuklo to create confusion in
order to gain time needed to finish building a Nth
Projector that Deathlok had been unable to finish.

(Marvel Two-in-One#55) - The Thing
and Giant-Man
(Bill Foster) stopped Nuklo, though his appointed guardian, Henri
Sorel, chewed the pair out for their violent actions. Quasar prevented
a near-meltdown caused by Nuklo and Lightner's actions. Giant-Man was
subsequently given security status at PEGASUS.

(Marvel Two-in-One#56) - Thundra
and the Grapplers
(Letha, Titania (DaVita), Poundcakes, and Screaming Mimi) broke into
PEGASUS, but were stopped by Quasar, Giant-Man, and the Thing;
meanwhile, Lightner completed his Nth Projector.

(Marvel Two-in-One#57) - A
security meeting involving
Dr. Wilburn, Margaret Mayfair, Anson Harkov, and the Thing, Quasar, and
Giant-Man provided no answers to the string of difficulties. However,
follow-up by the three heroes uncovered Lightner's presence at most of
the problems, but Lightner activated his Nth
Projector on
himself at about that time. Meanwhile, Wundarr had awoken and traveled
to the Cosmic Cube; his passage allowed Solarr and Klaw to escape their
confinement.

(Marvel Two-in-One#58) - Wundarr
transformed into the Aquarian via the Cube, and Lightner became the Nth
Man by using the Nth
Projector on himself. Eventually the Thing, Thundra, Quasar, Giant-Man,
and the Aquarian stopped Lightner, and the Thing and the Aquarian left
PEGASUS shortly thereafter. Foster remained, having revealed that he
was suffering from radiation poisoning and was seeking PEGASUS' help in
treating it.

(Marvel Two-in-One#67) - The Thing
visited PEGASUS,
placing the Serpent Crown there for safe-keeping and getting a promise
from Quasar that PEGASUS would not do anything with it. Ben shared
lunch with Quasar and Giant-Man.

(Marvel Two-in-One#73) - The Thing
and Quasar, following leads, uncovered the Nth
Command and their role in the Nth Man affair,
and Roxxon's sponsoring of it.

(Dazzler#9) - Meeker brought
Dazzler to PEGASUS,
where she was loosely blackmailed into being studied. Quasar befriended
her, but PEGASUS' legal threats prevented her from leaving; Quasar
interrupted one escape attempt. Klaw eventually tricked Dazzler into
freeing him; she accidentally absorbed Klaw entirely, blasted a hole to
the outside, and fled.

(Dazzler#10) - Quasar and PEGASUS
security pursued Dazzler, but a spaceship pulled her into it and
departed.

(Marvel Two-in-One#81) - At
PEGASUS, Bill Foster collapsed as a result of radiation poisoning.

(Marvel Team-Up I#113) - Nitro was
transported to
PEGASUS from New York, in a car driven by Mr. Jensen and accompanied,
for part of the trip, by Quasar.

(Contest of Champions I#1) - Jack
of Hearts was at PEGASUS being studied when he and Quasar were
teleported away.

(Marvel Team-Up Annual#5) - The
Serpent Crown began
manipulating the minds of those around it, starting with one
technician. Eventually controlling elements of PEGASUS' security
forces, it managed to get itself placed upon Quasar's head and took
control of him; soon after it controlled everyone else inside PEGASUS.
Using four cosmically-powered dimensional cannons, PEGASUS' staff began
summoning and donning crowns from other dimensions in an attempt to
summon the elder god Set. However, the Thing, Scarlet Witch,
Spider-Man, and Dr. Strange intervened; Spider-Man used the Cosmic Cube
to damage the Crowns, and Dr. Strange and the others then used the Cube
to destroy the Crowns, freeing PEGASUS and its staffers.

(Quasar#2 (fb) / Avengers
Annual#18/2 (fb)) -
Disappointed with his performance against the Serpent Crown's threat,
Quasar gave his resignation to Dr. Wilburn and left PEGASUS.

(Captain America Annual#7) - When
the Cosmic Cube
re-awakened, AIM forces organized by Bernard Worrell led an all-out
assault on PEGASUS. Dr. Wilburn called for help and Captain America
responded, but the Aquarian had taken the Cube first; AIM soon acquired
it while the two fought over it. Once AIM possessed the Cube they
abandoned the assault on PEGASUS.

(Avengers I#236) - Thermal
researchers at PEGASUS
used a borer to sink a new magma tap, and the facility was immediately
invaded from below by Lave Men (the bore had burst into one of their
villages). O'Brien sent out a request for aid, bringing the Avengers
(and Spider-Man) there, and they convinced the Lava Men to stand down
and that PEGASUS would cease drilling their permanently. Meanwhile, in
the Compound, three technicians (Frank, Bob, and someone else) had
worked feverishly on Dr.
Abner Croit's
stabilizer, which had been damaged by earth tremors, only to have
Blackout erupt from the device. Blackout tried to escape PEGASUS, and
collected Moonstone (Sofen), Electro, and Rhino to help.

(Avengers I#237) - While the Lava
Men departed, the
four escapees headed for the nuclear research dome, shutting down power
all over PEGASUS. Moonstone started a nuclear meltdown, allowing her
and Blackout to flee (Electro and Rhino were recaptured), but
Spider-Man and the Avengers stabilized the reactor.

(Power Man and Iron Fist#113) -
The Formorian Bres,
imprisoned at PEGASUS, began controlling those around them; he murdered
at least six, including guards Rick, Harry, and Tom, and fellow
prisoner Solarr. He was eventually defeated by the Guardsman, Captain
Hero, and the Falcon and Iron Fist, who had come to visit Bobby. Iron
Fist and Falcon were both given PEGASUS security clearances during the
visit.

(Marvel Team-Up I#149 (fb)) -
According to a blond
woman, her twin brother was part of a Project: PEGASUS experiment to
channel electricity through the human body. The experiment was
moderately successful, but eventually drove the subject insane. The
subject, dubbed the Incandescent Man, escaped PEGASUS by shutting down
their power grid, but when he fell into a river he was drained of his
charge. She vowed to recover her brother and use his power to destroy
PEGASUS.

(Thing I#24) - After doctors
offered Rhino an
experimental treatment which they theorized could restore his humanity,
Rhino agreed and was placed in a well-protected containment transport,
and removed from Project: PEGASUS. The Miracle
Man
attacked the transport en route, but the Thing interfered and convinced
Rhino to surrender. The Thing then returned the Rhino to PEGASUS,
turning him over to the Guardsman, who noted that many of the villains
kept there were beginning to be transferred to other facilities so as
to allow more research.

(Power Pack I#14 (fb) - BTS) -
Douglas Carmody
"collected a marker" from an acquaintance at Project: PEGASUS, and
purchased a surplus battle suit for a very good price. He'd later
employ the suit against Power Pack as the Bogey-Man.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch
II#1) - Following the
Vision's attempted world takeover, he underwent a rigorous physical and
psychological examination at Project: PEGASUS. The Scarlet Witch
eventually tired of her husband's treatment and, using her powers to
override PEGASUS' security and the Guardsman, rejoined him. The pair
quit the Avengers on the spot and left with the blessing of Avengers'
liaison Raymond
Sikorski.

(Avengers I#261) - When the Black
Knight and Hercules visited PEGASUS seeking help tracking the Beyonder,
the Beyonder appeared there. Hercules attacked him, and the Beyonder
blew a 50 foot wide tunnel from the cosmic research facility to the
surface. He soon teleported away, and the Avengers left.

(Power Man and Iron Fist#121) - In
PEGASUS, Captain
Hero overheard the Guardsman and a doctor discussing the fact the he
was going to die soon and nothing could be done about it. He fled from
the facility, and did not return.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch
II#7) - Synthetic
duplicates of Mastermind, Quicksilver, and Magneto (derived from the
Stranger's alien technology) were brought to PEGASUS for study, as was
the real Toad. Quicksilver and Magneto were dismantled; when the Vision
spoke with the Mastermind robot pieces of it escaped and freed the
Toad. Despite the efforts of Vision and Guardsman, the Toad escaped the
facility.

(Iron Man Annual#8) - After Willie
Evans used his
reality manipulating powers to violently disrupt a class, Project;
PEGASUS personnel burst into his home and took him during the night.
Later, Tony Stark (as Iron Man) delivered his Alpha-Particle Generator
to PEGASUS for testing; where he was met by the Guardsman (PEGASUS'
security director), Dr. Wilburn, and Dr. Sorel. Iron Man witnessed
Evans' being tested on, but the Guardsman unhappily prevented Iron
Man's interference. X-Factor soon invaded, seeking Evans for the boys'
father, and about that time Evans woke up and began wreaking havoc in
the facility. Evans escaped to the nearby town of Pottersville, which
he destroyed in a serious of powerful explosions before dying himself.

(Marvel Super Heroes III#12) - A
hacker broke into
PEGASUS' systems, doing nothing more than pronouncing his hacking
success and leaving his name - Glitch. Among others, Blacklash, Rhino,
and Blackout were being held in PEGASUS at this time, guarded by
Guardsmen.

(Fantastic Four I#313 (fb) - BTS)
- Following the
transfer of most of PEGASUS' superhumans to the Vault, the facility
transitioned back to a purely research facility. Shortly thereafter,
Myron Wilburn brought in thermal energy expert Dr. DeVere to aid in the
transition.

(Fantastic Four I#313) - Seeking
access to the Mole
Man's tunnels, Ben Grimm's Fantastic Four came to Project: PEGASUS and
used the drill hole that originally brought the Lava Men to PEGASUS to
access those tunnels. They were given access by Dr. DeVere, and
returned the same way later that day.

(Incredible Hulk#366) - A U.S.
military convoy
transporting the Abomination to Project: PEGASUS was interrupted and
the transport vehicle destroyed by the Hulk.

(Quasar#8) - The Omnivore, a
creature evolved from
abandoned pieces of Iron Man's armor created on the Beyonder's
Battleworld, attacked PEGASUS; security ordered the facility abandoned.
While security director Blue Shield saw 15 of his men murdered and
devoured and he himself trapped in an organic cocoon, Quasar came to
the rescue, sending trapped worker Helen Carver to the surface. Quasar
freed Blue Shield and ultimately killed it by opening PEGASUS' magma
tap and driving the creature into Earth's core. Blue Shield told
director Wilburn of his intention to resign, then turned his attention
to restoring the facility's power.

(Marvel Super-Heroes III#3/5 (fb))
- Following the
Omnivore's assault on PEGASUS, Blue Shield resigned as security
director. He chose to instead become a PEGASUS test subject, and
Firebolt (secretly a Roxxon agent) replaced him in charge of security.

(Quasar#13) - Quasar brought the
stranded Squadron
Supreme to Project: PEGASUS, and director Wilburn agreed to house the
Squadron there in the Compound quarters now emptied by the movement of
PEGASUS' confined criminals to the Vault. Almost immediately, most of
the Squadron were kidnapped by the Over-Mind.

(Marvel Super-Heroes III#3/5) - A
series of tests
went awry, culminating when a test observed by Jeannine O'Connell and
Henri Sorel involving Blue Shield left the Shield near death. Jeannine
investigated the accidents and realized that only Firebolt could be
responsible; Firebolt attacked her but Blue Shield came to her aid;
Shield caused Firebolt to implode, incinerating himself. Afterwards,
Blue Shield once again accepted the security director position.

(Quasar#17) - After the Squadron
had been kidnapped off-planet by the Over-Mind, Quasar returned them to
Project: PEGASUS.

(Quasar#19) - Dr. Strange visited
Project: PEGASUS
and attempted to send the Squadron Supreme home, but failed. It was
theorized that Arcanna's son Benjamin would eventually end up where the
Nth Man was created, at which point the Squadron
could return home.

(Quasar#51 (fb) - BTS) - Due to
overcrowding of the
Vault, PEGASUS agreed to again accept prisoners, though only of an
extra-dimensional or extra-terrestrial nature. One of these prisoners
was the Angler. Numerous Guardsmen were assigned to PEGASUS as
security. The Squadron Supreme also accepted an official role with
PEGASUS, investigating extra-dimensional activities and energies on
Earth.

(Avengers West Coast#81) - Several
Avengers (Hank Pym, Wasp, Spider-Woman(Carpenter), Gilgamesh,
She-Hulk, USAgent, Mockingbird, Falcon) waited at PEGASUS guarding Warstar
and many Shi'ar warriors (including Alake)
and the Kree Dr. Minerva and Captain Atlas, all of whom were brought
and held there in miniaturized containers. The Shi'ar
Imperial Guard members Nightside,
Scintilla,
and Hobgoblin
attacked, restoring the captors and fleeing with all but Minerva and
the Shi'ar grunts.

(Avengers West Coast#82 - BTS) -
Wasp agreed to let
Minerva go in exchange for help tracking the Shi'ar; Gilgamesh,
She-Hulk, and Falcon briefly remained at PEGASUS to guard the remaining
captives after the others left.

(Quasar#51) - Quasar brought a
cocoon containing
Kismet to PEGASUS for safe keeping. While Quasar was visiting with the
Squadron, the Angler awoke and went on a rampage. Quasar banished the
Angler using an Nth Projector, but in doing so
granted the Geometer access to PEGASUS and Earth.

(Quasar#52) - Quasar and the
Squadron battled the
Geometer, eventually convincing him to time travel away. The Whizzer
and Dr. Spectrum captured Ion, and brought her to Project: PEGASUS for
confinement.

(Quasar#53) - Led by Dr. Pons
Indenbaum (a cosmic
radiation and human research expert), PEGASUS scientists studied Kayla
Ballantine and the Starbrand she bore, but were unable to determine
anything or help her. Kayla's power surged causing a small explosion,
and Quasar angrily confronted Dr. Wilburn about that and the Angler,
after which he and Kayla left the facility.

(Quasar#54) - From the moon,
Quasar contacted the
Whizzer and Dr. Spectrum at PEGASUS, seeking their help in recovering
his kidnapped girlfriend.

(Quasar#57) - Dr. Indenbaum was
conducting a passive
investigation of Kismet's cocoon, and the Squadron were playing poker
elsewhere in PEGASUS, when the Enclave
opened a spatial gate and stole the cocoon.

(Quasar#60) - Quasar visited
PEGASUS to say goodbye
to the Squadron, announcing his intention to leave Earth. When he
learned of Kismet's kidnapping, he set out to find her first.

(Justice: Four Balance#3) -
Justice arranged to have
four superpowered kids known as the Psigns of the Times brought to
Project: PEGASUS for study and treatment pending potential criminal
charges against them.

(Spider-Man: Maximum Clonage
Alpha#1) - Following the
release of the Carrion Virus in Springdale, Pennsylvania, personnel
from Project: PEGASUS arrived to take custody of the surviving
infectee, Rafael
Carago, over the objection of Genetech's Walter Rosen. Spidercide
impersonated the pilot and stole PEGASUS' helicopter and the infectee.

(Siren#1-2) - At Project: PEGASUS,
Whizzer detected
four dimensional breaches in the New York City area, three of which
surrounded Avengers Mansion, and summoned the Squadron to investigate
with him.

(Siren#2/2) - By vidphone from
PEGASUS, Whizzer
consulted with Hank McCoy about the anomalies, which he had determined
related to another universe (the "Ultraverse").

(The Phoenix Resurrection:
Genesis#1) - At Pegasus,
in a chamber dedicated to constant supervision of the 616 continuum,
the Squadron continued to detect dimensional breaches. These were
probes sent by an extradimensional ship, but an enormous probe created
a large gate; the action blew out PEGASUS' holomap and detectors.

(Ultraforce/Spider-Man#1A /
Ultraforce/Spider-Man#1B)
- Project: PEGASUS registered unauthorized entries from the Ultraverse
into the 616 dimension, and reported the breaches to SHIELD.

(Avengers III#5) - The US
Government sent a team of
PEGASUS investigators (Sidney Keith (mission chief), Faith Barrows,
Davis Kent, Jessica Knowles, LeAnn Margolis, Seamus McAnn, Jerome
N'Tuba) to look into the crash of a ship formerly belonging to Thanos,
but their plane crashed; the Avengers (sent by the government) and
Squadron Supreme (sent by PEGASUS) rescued the team and other victims.

(Avengers III#6) - Concerned about
the Squadron
Supreme, the Avengers visited PEGASUS. Administrator Kappelhoff and the
Blue Shield had doubts about the Avengers' identities, but a PEGASUS
security agent, Jenkins, was able to verify Ms. Marvel's identity.
After a battle between the Avengers and the Squadron Supreme, the
Squadron was revealed to have been controlled by the Corruptor.

(Avengers/Squadron Supreme Annual
1998) - At PEGASUS,
the Squadron was attacked mentally again by a force trying to control
them, and Arcanna called the Avengers for aid; the two teams departed
to track the source. After locating that source (Imus Champion), the
Squadron was finally able to return to their home universe, and so did
not return to PEGASUS.

(Nova IV#17 - BTS (fb)) - Robotics
Head Evelyn
Necker's pet project was a squad of defense robots code-named Minion;
technician Robbie Rider worked with her on this. Necker also oversaw
the extraction and containment of some exotic radiation from the
Negative Zone.

(Nova IV#17) - During the Skrull
invasion of Earth,
PEGASUS was attacked and the Guardsman armors were all shut down.
Following the first wave, Nova entered PEGASUS and engaged Darkhawk,
but after a brief battle Nova aided PEGASUS in its defense. During the
second wave (during which guards George and Ralph were apparently
killed), Nova and technician Robbie Rider aided Evelyn Necker in
"uncorking" the quantum flask containing the energy drained from the
Negative Zone six weeks earlier, energy which appeared to be a
disembodied Quasar (Wendell Vaughn). They also downloaded the Xandarian
Worldmind into the Minion system.

(Nova IV#18) - Nova, Quasar, and
Darkhawk defended
PEGASUS< but we're slowly losing ground when the Worldmind
activated
all of Necker's Minion robots; this tipped the balance and allowed the
humans to win. However, a Skrull ship above launched a series of
attacks intended to destroy PEGASUS, only to be stopped by new members
of the Nova Corps.

(Nova IV#19-20) - Project PEGASUS
served as
headquarters for the Woldmind, Nova, and the Nova Corps while Director
Gruenwald and others saw to repairs and restoration. While Nova and the
Nova Corps were off battling various Earth-bound threats, the Worldmind
empowered approximately fifty humans as Nova Corps members, including
Robbie Rider, and summoned them to PEGASUS.

(Nova IV#21 - BTS) - Having
empowered Ego the Living
Planet as a Nova Corps member, the Worldmind moved the Corps out of
Project PEGASUS and on to Ego.

(War of Kings: Darkhawk I#1) - A
Skrull booby trap
freed the U-Foes X-Ray and Vector; guards recaptured X-Ray and Darkhawk
confronted Vector, only to lose control and seriously injure Vector.
When Dr. Necker reached for him, he lashed out at her and fled.

(Nova IV#22 - BTS) - Darkhawk took
a leave of absence from PEGASUS.

(Nova
IV#22) - Now depowered, Richard Rider returned to PEGASUS and colsulted
with Quasar, Necker, and Gruenwald. Rider was throughly tested for
mental or physical damage from the Worldmind, and no mental damage was
found, though serious physical deterioration was uncovered. After Nova
Corps members Robbie Rider and Irani were lured into an isolation
chamber, tests showed that the Worldmind was altering the behaviors of
its new recruits; several other Corps members soon broke into the
chamber, allowing Worldmind to take control of Robbie and Irani, after
which the Corps departed.

(Marvel
Zombies Supreme#1 (fb)) - Dr. Dauoi used Zeta rays
(negatively
charged energy) harvested from the Project's orbital particle
collector, inadvertently mixed with the dispersed form of Jack of
Hearts, to reanimate the corpses that had been grafted with DNA
constructs from the Squadron Supreme. Dauoi kept Jack of
Hearts' energy in a separate part of the facility, not realizing what
it was. Likely due to the
refractive nature of Dr. Spectrum's Power Prism, the cadavers revived
instead in a zombie-like and human-hungry state, quickly overrunning
and consuming many of the research staff. The surviving scientists,
holed up near the bottom of the underground silo, activated the
failsafe shut-off, locking the place down and disabling communications.
The zombie clone Nuke escaped via the radioactive waste chute.

(Marvel Zombies Supreme#1) - Battlestar and the
elite Guardsman Alpha Team (Doc, Jill Harper, Hoss, Mainframe,
Soapbox, Two-Ton) arrived to investigate, soon bypassing security
protocols. Inside they found the scientists, but also the zombie clones
of the Squadron Supreme. They later found the captured particles
of Jack of Hearts. Meanwhile, the zombie clone Hyperion escaped via the
facility's magma pools that led far under the earth.

(Marvel
Zombies Supreme#2) - The zombie clone Shape used the airducts to find
Battlestar and the elite squad, followed by the other hungry clones,
but Harper was able to release the trapped energy, allowing Jack of
Hearts to re-form.

(Marvel Zombies
Supreme#3) - The zombie clones continued to hunt and fight Battlestar
and his human colleagues within the underground facility.

(Marvel
Zombies Supreme#4) - In the continuing melee, Dauoi, his body mutated
and partly affected by the zombie virus, reappeared, leading zombified
scientists in an effort to escape and infect the world.

(Marvel
Zombies Supreme#5) - The remaining Squadron Supreme clones also arrived
at the still-open main gate, but Jack of Hearts destroyed all the
zombies and purged the area of the zombie virus. However, Dauoi was
able to escape and ate a man in the woods outside the facility.

Project: PEGASUS had in-depth
entries in both OHotMU
I#8 and OHotMU Deluxe Edition#10. It is being profiled here anyway to
a) update its appearances and status changes since the mid-1980s, and
to allow me to give the individual PEGASUS staffers some face time. I
also apologize to those with slower internet connections for the two
full-size PEGASUS maps, but the second proved necessary for
completeness' sake. Here's rooting for a PEGASUS profile in an upcoming
Marvel Handbook! Note: it subsequently did receive one, in the Iron
Manual Mark 3 (2010).

Power Man and Iron Fist#112-113
has Iron Fist
believing and Guardsman confirming that Falcon used to head up the
top-secret SHIELD organization which became PEGASUS. Given that PEGASUS
is a US Department of Energy facility, that gets a big "what the ???"
reaction from me. I originally recorded it above as "the Falcon headed
up some sort of secret SHIELD splinter group that had some involvement
with the early days of Project: PEGASUS" and it was further clarified
in the Iron Manual Mark 3 (2010).

PEGASUS has occasionally been
noted as being in the
Catskills, and occasionally in the Adirondacks. The latter is generally
assumed to be correct.

In Marvel Two-in-One#60, Mark
Gruenwald, Ralph
Macchio, and George Perez attended a party for Alicia Masters and
discussed their recently published "Project: PEGASUS story." Presumably
this can't be the actual Nth Man storyline, as
many elements of Project: PEGASUS are top secret.

The "completed in 1979" date on
the main image above
is clearly topical, as are any other dates associated with this. Though
construction began earlier, it was in the final stages of completion
during Marvel Two-in-One#42-43.

Dr. DeVere in Fantastic Four I#313
was clearly
up to something sneaky and/or evil. However, the author apparently left
before we got there, and who and what he is remains unresolved.

Bobby Wright, a.k.a. Captain Hero,
was really the Super-Skrull, though even he did not realize it at the
time.

The character clarifications noted
throughout
Avengers: Most Wanted Files (February, 2006) are noted as coming from
Project: PEGASUS, and almost certainly would have to come from Jason
Rivera's database.

Robert Frank (Nuklo), the son of
the World War Two
heroes the Whizzer and Ms. America, was born at Mt. Athena, New York
(according to his Official Handbook entry). As no such town has
otherwise been seen to exist, and as his parents worked at an
experimental nuclear reactor before Nuklo's birth, the experimental
reactor was clearly being retconned by Mark Guenwald into being a
precursor to Project: PEGASUS (particularly since a precursor facility
is known to have existed there).

The Abominaton was being
transported to PEGASUS in
Hulk#366 when the Hulk attacked the convoy; when the Abomination is
next seen (Hulk #382-384) he is free and it is assumed there that he
escaped from whatever government institution held him. It is unclear if
he ever made it to PEGASUS or was placed somewhere else instead.

(B-Sides#1/2) - Katherine Hahn
(Feeva) was asked to
attend the Pegasus Institute. She was given a high-tech headset, as a
test was asked to motivate her friends to investigate a New Jersey
mystery. Passing the test, she left to join the Institute. Whether
or not this Pegasus Institute has any relation to Project: PEGASUS is
not stated. Given that a plane flight is necessary from Newark to
access it, it seems unlikely that the Institute is located on/near
Mount Athena, though that does not mean they're not affiliated. Until
some relation between the two is established, this is remaining in the
comments.

The Marvel Team-Up Annual#5 story
is recapped in
Fantastic Four Annual#22/5 (1989), but as no new information is added
there that issue is not included here.

As of Ultimate Power#1 (2006),
there is a Project
Pegasus in the Ultimate universe (Earth-1610) as well. However, Pegasus
appears to just be a name and not an acronym there (though this is
still far from clear).

According to unverified online
sources, Project:
PEGASUS apparently appeared in the 2006-2007 Fantastic Four: World's
Greatest Heroes cartoon series, in an episode titled "The Cure." Crates
from Project: PEGASUS also appear in the 2010 Iron Man II movie.

A Project: PEGASUS plays a
significant role on
Earth-98702 in the novel series X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow:
Book Two: The Present (August 1998, by Tom DeFalco and Adam-Troy
Castro) and Book Three: The Future (September 1998, by Tom DeFalco and
eluki bes shahar). In that dystopian world, the U.S. government passed
legislation requiring all superhumans to register, and inevitably
incarceration of criminals turned to incarceration of heroes too, with
only the X-Men remaining unconfined as government agents. The captured
superhumans were kept in stasis in Project: PEGASUS, and the book
climaxes with the efforts of a dimension-traveling Bishop and
Spider-Man (Parker) to free them, alongside that universe's rebels.
They do eventually succeed, and Spider-Man and Bishop are returned to
their own world just as the freed captives face off against the X-Men.
However, in Book Three, Kang's machinations result in the destruction
of that universe.

In the 1986 Marvel Superheroes
Adventure Gamebook #1, The Amazing Spider-Man: City in
Darkness,
by Jeff Grubb, a Project: PEGASUS truck transporting Electro is
attacked by thugs, and Electro freed (entry 146). The transport was
headed by Captain Amber Nash of PEGASUS, and included guards Lawson and
Blashfield. ---Unless referenced in a Marvel comic, licensed prose
materials not generally considered in continuity. So, this is only
noted here in the Comments.

In Spider-Girl #86, there is a
Maximum Security
Prison at Mount Athena in her world (Earth-982). It seems unlikely to
be a coincidence, so this is probably part of, or used to be, Project:
PEGASUS.

The Project: PEGASUS gets mentioned in
the 1999 Adam-Troy Castro novel Spider-Man: The Gathering of
the Sinister Six when Chameleon disguised himself as agent Sean Morgan,
taking custody of Dr. Octopus and pretending to transfer him to
Project: PEGASUS to aid in a radiation-based emergency. As the
mention of PEGASUS is in a lie, this novel is not
included above.

Though the Sinister Six novel trilogy is in continuity as the handbook profiles for the
Sinister Six, Rocket Racer and White Rabbit mentioned them.--David A. Zuckerman.

Thanks to G Morrow for his help
with Spider-Man:
Maximum Clonage Alpha, and Sean McQuaid for pointing out the Contest of
Champions mention. Zombies Supreme update by Grendel Prime.

Jeannine O'Connell is a
psychotherapist at Project: PEGASUS. She has extensive training in
child psychology.

Jeannine was Wundarr's
therapist, treating him
before and after his exposure to the Cosmic Cube, and befriending the
Thing when he came on board as security. She played poker with Grimm,
Quasar, Bill Foster, and others. When Quasar was wounded battling
Solarr and Klaw she helped care for him; she and Wilburn discussed the
futility of evacuating PEGASUS while the heroes battled the Nth
Man; and she was present when Aquarian (the transformed Wundarr) left
PEGASUS. She later attended a Christmas party at the Baxter Building
with Quasar, reuniting with the Aquarian there. At that party, Quasar
introduced her as his fiancee, though apparently the engagement didn't
last.

Jeannine was present
when Dr. Sorel conducted a
test on Blue Shield which went awry. She soon deduced that only
Firebolt could have been responsible, and after Blue Shield defeated
Firebolt, Jeannine convinced Blue Shield to re-assume his prior duties
as security director.

Dr. Rivera is cataloging all
parahumans known to
exist, in all known dimensions. This enables PEGASUS to cross-reference
by powers, history, modus operandi, and other factors. It should be
noted that Dr. Sorel had started a similar, if smaller, project before
he left PEGASUS, which Rivera used as a partial basis for his own.
Their work was later incorporated into the Avengers' holomap status
board (apparently destroyed during 'Disassembled').

Rivera provided the
Avengers information on
mind-controlling villains when the Corruptor was influencing the
Squadron Supreme. Later, Iron Man contacted Rivera for information on
ionically powered individuals when many of those were being murdered.

Myron Wilburn was one of the
architectural consultants for PEGASUS, and is the general
administrative director.

Wilburn greeted the
Thing when he came to
PEGASUS as security, and witnessed the Thing and Quasar's tussle when
Grimm mistook Quasar for the Crusader. He participated in security
disruptions following Deathlok's and the Grappler's invasions,
considered evacuating PEGASUS during the Nth
Man's fight,
and was present when the Thing and Aquarian left PEGASUS. Wilburn was
later knocked unconsciously by the exploding Nitro after being legally
forced to free him.

Wilburn was one of those who fell
under the Serpent
Crown's control; he became high acolyte of the Crowns. After being
freed by Dr. Strange, the Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, and the Thing,
Wilburn unhappily accepted Quasar's resignation. He was present when
AIM assaulted PEGASUS to steal the Cosmic Cube, and also hired the
Guardsman to replace Quasar.

When the government
wanted reality-altering
Willie Evans confined and tested, Wilburn reluctantly agreed, and
prevented Iron Man from interfering. However, Evans eventually woke up
and escaped; Wilburn was seriously injured when parts of PEGASUS
collapsed during that escape.

Later, Wilburn oversaw
PEGASUS' evacuation
during the Omnivore's attach, and accepted Blue Shield's resignation as
security director thereafter. Not long thereafter, Wilburn approved
Quasar's request to house the Squadron Supreme at Project: PEGASUS.
Several weeks later, Wilburn was confronted by Quasar, who blamed
Wilburn for difficulties relating to the examinations of the Angler and
Kayla Ballantine. Wilburn eventually resigned, to be replaced by Andrew
Kappelhoff and then in turn by a Director Gruenwald.